The older she grew, the more tenaciously did she cling to temporal possessions, and the more keenly did she feel occasional losses.

Mr. Lewes was as homely as Wilkes, and was three years older than Miss Evans,a very bright, witty, versatile, learned, and accomplished man; a brilliant talker, novelist, playwright, biographer, actor, essayist, and historian, whose "Life of Goethe" is still the acknowledged authority in Germany itself, as Carlyle's "Frederic the Great" is also regarded.

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An older man who had been dining in a distant corner of the room, and who wore the uniform of an officer of high rank, suddenly approached.

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He was a well-looking, well-turned-out and well-to-do representative of the occupation which he, his father and grandfather had followed,ten years older, perhaps, than his companion, but remarkably well-preserved.

She was a widow, some thirty years old, ten years older than I was.

A friend of his, ten years older, was bound for the same destination, both fond of adventure, and they agreed to go together, and to go as far as they could by land instead of taking the long sea journey around the Cape of Good Hope.

The report of the wonderful discovery of a royal palace, evidently older than those of Nineveh, with magnificent decorations in alabaster and cuneiform inscriptions, reached beyond Mosul to Constantinople.

He looked much older than at the beginning of the war, but by no means less hardy or robust.

Senators of the older school no doubt censured the "new wisdom" of their colleague, and his un-Roman artifice; but the object was gained and the winter passed away without any movement on the part of Perseus.

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A man wanting yet several years of forty, he looked many years older than that age.

But the second act, in modern plays, has often to do all the work of the three middle acts under the older dispensation; wherefore the theory of their special functions has more of a historical than of a practical interest.

Johnson, as he grew older and got into more polished society, became milder in his manners; but he had enough of the old spirit left in him to break forth at times with ungovernable fury, and astonish the well-regulated minds of respectable ladies and gentlemen.

"A man," he said to Reynolds, "ought to keep his friendship in constant repair;" or he would find himself left alone as he grew older.

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Chapters 9-14, appended to the older books of Zechariah, apparently come from this same period and voice the thought of the conquerors.

Naturally their attempt to anticipate by definite regulations each individual problem led them to absurd extremes and in time obscured the real intent of the older laws, but the spirit which actuated it was progressive.

Although it is only a translation, the Greek version, or Septuagint (the Version of the Seventy), as it is popularly known, still possesses a great value for the modern translator, inasmuch as it is based upon Hebrew texts centuries older than any which now exists.

Other Jewish writers appealed to the older Greek historians and poets.

And as she had two sons by Alexander, she made the older, Hyrcanus, high priest, on account of his age and also on account of his inactive temperament.

Unfortunately Alexandra's older son, Hyrcanus, was indolent and inefficient.

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The older taxes have the virtue of stability, but in many cases they have grown out of harmony with the industrial conditions.